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Volume XCV, Number 21 University of Southern California Tuesday, February 7, 1984
Prevention of drug abuse emphasized at conference
Resisting peer pressure stressed
CRAIG STEWART DAILY TROJAN
DR. WILLIAM RADER
By David Jefferson
Assistant City Editor
"We're programming our children with the media. It's dangerous, and I think it's a drug .... When you watch television, you develop the behaviors you perceive. There are all different kinds of drugs which show that you're adult, and the media shows that over and over again."
This was the opinion expressed by Dr. William Rader of KABC-TV evening news at a seminar entitled Community Action for Drug Abuse Prevention, held yesterday at the Davidson Conference Center and attended by approximately 530 community members who support the prevention of drug abuse.
Sponsored by the School of Pharmacy and Health Behavior Research Institute, the conference was designed to promote the Institute's anti-drug abuse program SMART, which stands for Self Management And Resistance Training.
Introduced in the Los Angeles Unified School District almost two years ago, SMART trains youths in their early teens how to resist pressures to use alcohol, tobacco and drugs.
They are taught how to say "no" in ways that are socially acceptable to their peers, and are shown techniques for dealing with stress, setting goals, making decisions and raising their self-esteem.
The four-hour conference was
University not troubled about no-shows
By Sheldon Ito
Assistant City Editor
Many colleges across the country are now searching for ways to combat the problem of applicants who renege on their commitment to enroll. However, this university is not one of them, said Katherine Forte, director of admissions.
"It (student no-shows) is not a major problem to us," Forte said.
She explained that about 95.7 percent of the applicants who "certify" enrollment by paying the S50 deposit eventually enroU at the university.
She said about 11,000 students apply each year for the 2,800 freshmen openings. About 5,600 are accepted, with about half committing to the university.
The 4.3 percent who certify and do not enroll, about 120 of
2,800, are offset by "students who do not certify and do enroll," she said.
Forte said that every Tear there are a number of uncertified students who "show up on our doorstep" at the beginning of the semester wanting to enroll. —
"If they come from great distances we don't turn them back/' she said
She said it's been "probably nine or 10 years" since the university has fallen short of its recruitment goals. She said they did think they were going to fall short two years ago, but were saved by a "last minute flurry of certifications" during August.
Some schools, such as Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania, are trying to crack down on applicants who sign commitments to more
than one university by threatening to cancel their admissions. Other schools have been raising their deposits to deter such practices.
This university will require a S100 deposit from those certifying for next fall, up from the $50 it has charged for about the past eight years. Forte said.
She said the higher deposit will provide the university with a firmer indicator of a student's intention to enroll.
"Because of inflation, $100 is worth the same as S50 was 10 years ago," she said.
The university felt safe raising the deposit because many other schools require much higher payments for certification, she said. Some schools require $500 and some even require payment of tuition, she added.
"A hundred dollars is not at all out of line," she said.
Forte said that one of the reasons students renege on commitments to enroll at the university is that they realize they can't afford jt.
Officials from other universities said that it is common practice for applicants to commit to every school that accepts them and then decide which one they will actually attend.
Forte said the ideal solution to this-problem would be to have an electronic "national clearing house" where schools trade information on who has committed where. They could then get a clearer picture of where applicants will actually enroll.
However, she said it is probably not w’orth it for the university and other large schools, that are virtually assured of meeting admissions quotas, to pursue such a solution.
divided into th£ discussion of problems and solutions, and featured a series of lectures from celebrities involved with'drug-abuse prevention, including Rader; actress Liv Ullmann; Susan Newman, daughter of actor Paul Newman; and Jill Whelan of television's "The Love Boat."
In a speech welcoming the audience to the conference, university President James Zumberge briefly addressed the topic of drug problems among athletes.
"USC will have a particular relationship to this aspect of drug abuse next summer as it hosts one of the Olympic Villages and the Olympic swimming competition," Zumberge said. "All Olympic medalists and a sampling of all competitors will be tested for drug use. The very need for this testing is shocking evidence of the magnitude to which drug abuse is a pervasive international problem," Zumberge said.
But the primary focus of the conference was on ways to educate elementary and junior high school students about drug-abuse prevention, rather than On how to treat young adults who already have the problem.
"The earlier you catch it (the problem), the easier it is," said Rader, whose psychiatric work in alcoholism and compulsive overeating won him honors from the National Council of Alcoholism and Overeaters Anonymous. "The longer it takes, the harder it is to stop .... Early education is absolutely essential."
He added, "But there's one big problem, folks. These kids don't want to hear what you say. They want to watch what you're doing. You have to clean up vour own act."
Ullmann, who is a spokes-■■•Woman for UNICEF and has be-
(Continued on page 14)
Moot finals approach
High court judge to pick winners
By Glen Quon
City Writer
For the 14th consecutive year, a member of the U.S. Supreme Court will join a panel of distinguished jurists in presiding over the final round of the Law Center's moot court competition to be held Feb. 10.
William Rehnquist, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Amalya Kearse of the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and Judgt Varren Ferguson of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear the arguments brought forth by the four moot court finalists: Stanley Friedman, Stuart Tochner, Mark Werksman and Pamela Westh-off.
Judge Rehnquist, who received a bachelor's, master's and bachelor of laws degrees from Stanford University and another master's from Harvard University, was appointed to the Supreme Court by Richard Nixon in 1972.
Judge Kearse, nominated by Jimmy Carter to the U.S. Court of Appeals in 1979, received a bachelor's from Wellesley College and earned a juris doctor cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School.
Judge Ferguson, also nominated by Carter to the U.S. Court of Appeals in 1979, was educated at the University of Nevada and the the university's Law Center and is also a former university associate professor of psychiatry.
Lee Campbell, assistant dean and academic administrator of the Law Center, described the event as the culmination of a long and arduous process which actually begins when students enter their first year of law school.
All first-year students must take a course in legal writing in which they write a brief for a hypothetical case. Those who demonstrate outstanding writing ability will then be invited to participate in the moot court honors program in their second year.
(Continued on page 10)
Center for the Humanities scheduled to close in July
By Karen Kucher
Gty Writer
As of July, the Center for the Humanities, an office that "promotes interdisciplinary research and interdisciplinary curriculum thinking," will be closed, said Ronald Gottesman, founding director of the center.
A wide variety of factors contributed to the closing of the center, including finances, a resignation and a dwindling need for the center.
The Center originally had a five-year contract, Gottesman said. When the contract expired, there was a reviewing process. The center was reviewed by both an outside source and a group of faculty members.
Each group recommended a number of changes, and also recommended that the center continue to operate.
Although the center continued, year after year the budget either remained the same or decreased, Gottesman said.
"The center drifted for a couple of years," he said. "The budgets were reduced. The late planning of the budget also resulted in an uncertainty as to what programs would be planned."
Marshall Cohen, dean of the division of humanities, said that finances were not a major factor.
'Of course it costs money (to run the center)," he said. 'There is a savings, and now the funding can go directly to the interested groups and faculty."
Earlier this year Gottesman submitted his resignation as head of the center.
"I've been doing the same thing for nine years, and it is not as stimulating as I like my work to be," he explained.
The center is a unit within the division of humanities, in the School of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and was established in 1975.
Among other things, the center publishes a journal and organizes lectures for groups such as professional schools. Through its research seminars, it has connections with every element of the university.
It has also sponsored public programs that connected humanities with public issues and concerns through a variety of formats.
The center is, for example, in charge of working with university professional schools to revise curricula to include humanities.
Gottesman said he hopes the services the center has provided will continue.
"Some of the faculty development of interdisciplinary research will be carried on. I am con-
(Continued on page 14)

dM2^ trojan
Volume XCV, Number 21 University of Southern California Tuesday, February 7, 1984
Prevention of drug abuse emphasized at conference
Resisting peer pressure stressed
CRAIG STEWART DAILY TROJAN
DR. WILLIAM RADER
By David Jefferson
Assistant City Editor
"We're programming our children with the media. It's dangerous, and I think it's a drug .... When you watch television, you develop the behaviors you perceive. There are all different kinds of drugs which show that you're adult, and the media shows that over and over again."
This was the opinion expressed by Dr. William Rader of KABC-TV evening news at a seminar entitled Community Action for Drug Abuse Prevention, held yesterday at the Davidson Conference Center and attended by approximately 530 community members who support the prevention of drug abuse.
Sponsored by the School of Pharmacy and Health Behavior Research Institute, the conference was designed to promote the Institute's anti-drug abuse program SMART, which stands for Self Management And Resistance Training.
Introduced in the Los Angeles Unified School District almost two years ago, SMART trains youths in their early teens how to resist pressures to use alcohol, tobacco and drugs.
They are taught how to say "no" in ways that are socially acceptable to their peers, and are shown techniques for dealing with stress, setting goals, making decisions and raising their self-esteem.
The four-hour conference was
University not troubled about no-shows
By Sheldon Ito
Assistant City Editor
Many colleges across the country are now searching for ways to combat the problem of applicants who renege on their commitment to enroll. However, this university is not one of them, said Katherine Forte, director of admissions.
"It (student no-shows) is not a major problem to us," Forte said.
She explained that about 95.7 percent of the applicants who "certify" enrollment by paying the S50 deposit eventually enroU at the university.
She said about 11,000 students apply each year for the 2,800 freshmen openings. About 5,600 are accepted, with about half committing to the university.
The 4.3 percent who certify and do not enroll, about 120 of
2,800, are offset by "students who do not certify and do enroll," she said.
Forte said that every Tear there are a number of uncertified students who "show up on our doorstep" at the beginning of the semester wanting to enroll. —
"If they come from great distances we don't turn them back/' she said
She said it's been "probably nine or 10 years" since the university has fallen short of its recruitment goals. She said they did think they were going to fall short two years ago, but were saved by a "last minute flurry of certifications" during August.
Some schools, such as Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania, are trying to crack down on applicants who sign commitments to more
than one university by threatening to cancel their admissions. Other schools have been raising their deposits to deter such practices.
This university will require a S100 deposit from those certifying for next fall, up from the $50 it has charged for about the past eight years. Forte said.
She said the higher deposit will provide the university with a firmer indicator of a student's intention to enroll.
"Because of inflation, $100 is worth the same as S50 was 10 years ago," she said.
The university felt safe raising the deposit because many other schools require much higher payments for certification, she said. Some schools require $500 and some even require payment of tuition, she added.
"A hundred dollars is not at all out of line," she said.
Forte said that one of the reasons students renege on commitments to enroll at the university is that they realize they can't afford jt.
Officials from other universities said that it is common practice for applicants to commit to every school that accepts them and then decide which one they will actually attend.
Forte said the ideal solution to this-problem would be to have an electronic "national clearing house" where schools trade information on who has committed where. They could then get a clearer picture of where applicants will actually enroll.
However, she said it is probably not w’orth it for the university and other large schools, that are virtually assured of meeting admissions quotas, to pursue such a solution.
divided into th£ discussion of problems and solutions, and featured a series of lectures from celebrities involved with'drug-abuse prevention, including Rader; actress Liv Ullmann; Susan Newman, daughter of actor Paul Newman; and Jill Whelan of television's "The Love Boat."
In a speech welcoming the audience to the conference, university President James Zumberge briefly addressed the topic of drug problems among athletes.
"USC will have a particular relationship to this aspect of drug abuse next summer as it hosts one of the Olympic Villages and the Olympic swimming competition," Zumberge said. "All Olympic medalists and a sampling of all competitors will be tested for drug use. The very need for this testing is shocking evidence of the magnitude to which drug abuse is a pervasive international problem," Zumberge said.
But the primary focus of the conference was on ways to educate elementary and junior high school students about drug-abuse prevention, rather than On how to treat young adults who already have the problem.
"The earlier you catch it (the problem), the easier it is," said Rader, whose psychiatric work in alcoholism and compulsive overeating won him honors from the National Council of Alcoholism and Overeaters Anonymous. "The longer it takes, the harder it is to stop .... Early education is absolutely essential."
He added, "But there's one big problem, folks. These kids don't want to hear what you say. They want to watch what you're doing. You have to clean up vour own act."
Ullmann, who is a spokes-■■•Woman for UNICEF and has be-
(Continued on page 14)
Moot finals approach
High court judge to pick winners
By Glen Quon
City Writer
For the 14th consecutive year, a member of the U.S. Supreme Court will join a panel of distinguished jurists in presiding over the final round of the Law Center's moot court competition to be held Feb. 10.
William Rehnquist, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Amalya Kearse of the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and Judgt Varren Ferguson of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear the arguments brought forth by the four moot court finalists: Stanley Friedman, Stuart Tochner, Mark Werksman and Pamela Westh-off.
Judge Rehnquist, who received a bachelor's, master's and bachelor of laws degrees from Stanford University and another master's from Harvard University, was appointed to the Supreme Court by Richard Nixon in 1972.
Judge Kearse, nominated by Jimmy Carter to the U.S. Court of Appeals in 1979, received a bachelor's from Wellesley College and earned a juris doctor cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School.
Judge Ferguson, also nominated by Carter to the U.S. Court of Appeals in 1979, was educated at the University of Nevada and the the university's Law Center and is also a former university associate professor of psychiatry.
Lee Campbell, assistant dean and academic administrator of the Law Center, described the event as the culmination of a long and arduous process which actually begins when students enter their first year of law school.
All first-year students must take a course in legal writing in which they write a brief for a hypothetical case. Those who demonstrate outstanding writing ability will then be invited to participate in the moot court honors program in their second year.
(Continued on page 10)
Center for the Humanities scheduled to close in July
By Karen Kucher
Gty Writer
As of July, the Center for the Humanities, an office that "promotes interdisciplinary research and interdisciplinary curriculum thinking," will be closed, said Ronald Gottesman, founding director of the center.
A wide variety of factors contributed to the closing of the center, including finances, a resignation and a dwindling need for the center.
The Center originally had a five-year contract, Gottesman said. When the contract expired, there was a reviewing process. The center was reviewed by both an outside source and a group of faculty members.
Each group recommended a number of changes, and also recommended that the center continue to operate.
Although the center continued, year after year the budget either remained the same or decreased, Gottesman said.
"The center drifted for a couple of years," he said. "The budgets were reduced. The late planning of the budget also resulted in an uncertainty as to what programs would be planned."
Marshall Cohen, dean of the division of humanities, said that finances were not a major factor.
'Of course it costs money (to run the center)," he said. 'There is a savings, and now the funding can go directly to the interested groups and faculty."
Earlier this year Gottesman submitted his resignation as head of the center.
"I've been doing the same thing for nine years, and it is not as stimulating as I like my work to be," he explained.
The center is a unit within the division of humanities, in the School of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and was established in 1975.
Among other things, the center publishes a journal and organizes lectures for groups such as professional schools. Through its research seminars, it has connections with every element of the university.
It has also sponsored public programs that connected humanities with public issues and concerns through a variety of formats.
The center is, for example, in charge of working with university professional schools to revise curricula to include humanities.
Gottesman said he hopes the services the center has provided will continue.
"Some of the faculty development of interdisciplinary research will be carried on. I am con-
(Continued on page 14)